To:HIS MOTHER

Published:First published in 1930 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 4.

      Sent from Paris.

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      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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MariaAlexandrovna Ulyanova,Pankratyevskaya Street, 7, Apt. 5,Saratov,Russia

January 19, 1911

Motherdearest,

Wehave just received your letter. Nadya thanks you
very much for it and sends her regards. As for me, I am
hurrying to correct the misunderstanding which, it seems,
I was the unwitting cause of. Please do not send me any
money. I am not now in need. I wrote that neither my book
nor my article had been accepted—that was in one of my
recent letters. But in the last letter I wrote that they say
that my article will be accepted. I have written to
Gorky[1]about the book and hope for a favourable reply. In any
case my situation is notnowany worse; at the moment
I am not in need. I beg you, my dear, not to send anything
and not to try to save anything from your pension. If things
get bad I will write quite frankly, but at the moment they
are not. It is not easy to find a publisher, but I shall keep
on seeking—furthermore, I continue to receive the “sala-
ry”[6]I told you about in Stockholm. So please do not.
worry.

Nadyahas written twice to Manyasha and will write
today for the third
time.[2]Does Manyasha get the letters?

Iam very glad that Mitya sends good news about his

transfer.[3]Best regards to Mark and Anyuta from all of us here.

Weare all quite well. No changes to report. Yesterday
I delivered a lecture here on Tolstoi—I shall perhaps
deliver the lecture in several Swiss
towns.[4]

Theweather here is not bad. Dry and cold (our
apartment is very warm) and it is pleasant out walking.

Iembrace you fondly, my dear, and hope you keep well.

Yours,V. U.

P.S.Tanya’s mother in Moscow has been taken
ill.[5]

[1]CollectedWorks, Vol. 34, p. 439.—Ed.

[2]Forpurposes of secrecy Krupskaya wrote the letters in
invisible ink.—Ed.

[3]Lenin’sbrother Dmitry was to be transferred to Feodosia as
public health officer.—Ed.

[4]Lenindid not go to Switzerland to lecture on Tolstoi.—Ed. 
 —Lenin

[5]Thisrefers to the arrest of S.N. Smidovich, a close friend of
the Ulyanov family.—Ed.

[6]Thisrefers to the Party “salary” which was paid to Lenin at
times when he had no other means of subsistence.